Five Heartbeats

Care to visit the earliest days of rock 'n roll? And the "wolfman" Jack? Care to get up and dance 'couples' style and hear songs you can understand the lyrics to? And dance close, and with a partner using real dance steps with style and rhythm? Go back into time, w/ the early 60s, and get this CD.

Martha Wainwright is beginning again. The beguiling performer and songwriter makes a most welcome return with Love Will Be Reborn, her first new album in five years. It’s her first album since 2016’s Goodnight City, and the first since 2012’s acclaimed Come Home To Mama to feature so much original material. All eleven songs on Love Will Be Reborn are written by Martha. She wrote the first song, and what would become the title track, a few years ago in what was a very dark time for her personally. The title track hints at the ache of recent years while capturing a sense of optimism for the future. She wraps her wondrous, trademark vocals around the heartbreak to dizzying effect. “I wrote the song in its entirety within ten or fifteen minutes,” she admits.” I was bawling.”